I just accidentally hit command-Q and was asked if I was sure I wanted to quit and close my 17 windows with 56 browser tabs. How many total browser tabs do you have open now? A window with only one page on it counts as one tab.
Having tons of tabs does slow a computer down, but it’s a lot easier to switch tabs than it is to make and delete bookmarks constantly.
I have 1 browser with 3 tabs. they’re all the SDMB threads I’ve opened from the forum table of contents. After I reply to this thread I’ll close its tab. When I’m done with the last thread I’ll close the browser.
I can’t imagine the clutter of your way of doing it.
At work it’s not rare for me to have 4 remote sessions open with 5 to 15 apps in each plus another 5 to 15 on my local physical machine. So I’m not averse to more than one thing at a time.
But in each case it’s the minimum windows/tabs necessary to do the immediate job. Not just leftover crap I opened 4 days ago & might need to look at again tomorrow. That’s what bookmarks & shortcuts & menus & taskbars are for.
Diff’rent strokes and all that.
I have a dual monitor setup (both at work and at home). At work I typically have 10-15 tabs per Firefox window, one on each monitor, showing different things on them. At home it’s the same deal but usually only 5-10 tabs per browser window.
Nine in Chrome (my “personal stuff” browser) and six in IE (work-related stuff).
i hit ‘new posts’ then open whatever looks interesting into its own tab in one go before the search expires. much easier than browsing individual forums.
13 right now, only 3 of them aren’t work-related.
22 in three windows on two monitors.
I’m mostly on the same sites all day every day so I leave them all open in one window — 14.
My usual 6: My Yahoo!, Gmail, Google Calendar, SDMB, LJ, Google Reader.
I’m at work, so four: one to GMail, one to the main SDMB page, one to the IMHO page, and one to this thread.
If I were at home, there would probably be a lot more, depending on what I’m doing at the time.
I don’t know what browser you use, but I’m quite sure that at least some of them have the ability to (a) bookmark an entire set of tabs in its own folder and (b) open an entire folder of bookmarks in one window, tabbed. Seems a lot easier than just leaving everything open all the time.
Depends on when you ask me.
My default is five: Yahoo mail, Wiki, Talk Rational, SMDB, and MSDN.
That expands and contracts based upon usage with my median count probably at 9.
I ‘blame’ Firefox. Tabs are wonderful.
Yep, this is how I do it, too, at least, after I’ve exhausted the threads in my User CP link.
Right now, I have three tabs open on one browser. This one, the New Posts page and RickJay’s blog, because I just discovered it and it’s made of awesome. I’m reading through it backwards whenever you all fail to amuse me in a timely fashion. 
You delete your bookmarks?
Six tabs (three SDMB, one Google, one Facebook, and one GMail) and four windows.
I have 11 tabs that come up in Opera every time I launch it, sites I want to visit daily and don’t want to pick one at a time from bookmarks.
I didn’t vote, since there’s no “zero” option 
I hate tabbed browsing with the fire if a thousand suns - open windows work the same way, so why duplicate? I can glance at my taskbar to see what’s open.
It’s the first thing I turn off on a new Firefox download.
Hahaha, I feel exactly the same way–about non-tabbed browser windows! I loathe, loathe, loathe them. We’re still officially on IE6 at work, and I jumped for joy the day I found a legitimate business reason to request IE7.
I *hate *the clutter of having a bunch of browser windows open–makes it hard to switch to other applications. Plus, I like being able to cluster tabs by topic–if I’m going to have a bunch of pages open related to one thing, I can open them as tabs in their own window.
My average is five or six. I have three open, just to keep the sites open. The other two or three I go back and forth on. I almost never have more than six. If I have to open more than six, like for a site I want to read later, I will open it in a new background window
Every morning I come in to work and open the support Web site, Facebook and the SDMB. The fourth tab will be the site I’m working on.
If I click on a link from here or FB, I get another tab, peruse it, and close it.
I’ll often have one tab open for Google searches for help with whatever I am working on at the moment.
So, usually 5 but right now just 3 as I don’t have a site open for work and I am not Googling any help topics.
It’s only five now, but recently I managed to have 14 tabs open.
Oh, wait, we’re talking about all browser tabs. Not just Microsoft Excel tabs. My computer can na take it any more.